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    c of that day and that hour knoweth no man } no , not the angels which are ia heaven , neither the Son , but the Father / Mark xiii . 32 . " Pp . 72 , 73 . "He ( Christ ) submitted to his parents , obeyed and learned gradually . c Learned obedience by the things he suffered / He advanced by

    degrees , and grew in * stature and ia Favour with God and man / And though he never sinned , yet * he died unto sin once ;* that is , unto the motions , which , if obeyed , had brought forth sin ; for he had a will as a man ; as a man his nature was reluctant to

    the cross : ' If it . be possible , let this cup pass from me , * but he abode in subjection : 'Not my will , but thine be done / Just the path we all must tread to glory , the way we all must walk if ever we obtain salvation . He

    must reign in us till he puts all enemies under us ; here he must sit at God ' s right hand , the right hand of Omnipotence in every soul , till eternal power makes all his foes his footstool ; till . he puts down all other rule and

    authority in us but his own , till perfect obedience and subjection takes place , till our will is swallowed up in the Divine will ; here as Mediator , having made perfect reconciliation , he renders up the kingdom to the Father , and God becomes all in all /* P . 74 .

    " Though God is eternally but one , and there is no twain at all in him , not even love in him , in any wise different from wisdom , goodness , power , wrath , vengeance , or any thing that is in him ; yet as it is very proper to speak of these several attributes or perfections , and of divers operations ,

    according to what he operates upon , a fountain of living waters to the faithful , a consuming fire to the man of sin—so it is proper , and there is a substantial experimental ground for the distinction Father , Son , and Spirit ; yea further for the distinction * of God , and of the Father , and of Christ / as we find Paul expresses it /'

    ^ P 76 , 77 . " All the divine life in Christ , was the very life of God in him , and in that sense he and his Father were one ; yet as in him something was taken into

    union with God which was human , therefore Christ testified , 'My Father is greater than 1 / This . will eternally be the case ; God is and ever will *> c greater than any thing else ; and

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    though humanity is United with and so * Christ is not ashamed to call

    them brethren ; ' yet as the birth ' of the divine life , in the union with the human , was most eminent in that prepared body ; as the body itself was ' conceived by the Holy Ghost * and was uniformly in subjection to the divine life ; as he was thus brought forth for a most excellent work and

    service , and for the glorious display of the way and work of salvation , so ail the brethren - and'fellow-heirs with him , must for ever allow him the preeminence . Yet this hinders not their being born of the same holy seed &s to the divine life in them , therefore it is one and the same wherever it

    becomes the life of the soul . " Pp . 84 , 85 . The concluding paragraph of this work is as follows ; ' * God will be for ever disposed a 4 ike at all times to a soul in the same state . If he rejects atone time for actual sin or

    sinfulness , lie will always reject for the same . It is perfectly idle to talk of being completely reconciled to God , by the righteousness of Christ , whilst

    remaining actually sinners in ourselves ; or that we are holy in him , and unholy in ourselves . God always regards us just as we are in ourselves , and is to us accordingly , because he cannot change ,.

    " And therefore to the froward he will shew himself froward , because all that are froward are in direct opposition to him . Let that frowardhess in us be removed , and a reconciliation must of course take place ^ for he is in eternal good-will to all good , and to

    all that are strictly under the influence of good . Here there can be twain no longer ; for all jarring frowardness and opposition being removed , the oneness is established , wherein the true peace consists for ever . This is the work of Christ hi

    man , and of Goo in Christ . It is also the work of man by Christ , and of Christ by God the Father /' Copious as the foregoing extracts are , 1 would offer you one more from the " author ' s address ' -to the reader .

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    Character and Writing * of Job Scott , th& American Qtiak&rl 28 &

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1825, page 269, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2536/page/13/